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I am a native speaker, I will be able to teach my students pronunciation , grammar, and conversation. I will tenaciously but patiently help them master the language and all the nuances that make Brazilian Portuguese such a unique language.

About Marcia R.

Hi,there! My name is Marcia and I am really excited to meet you. I've been teaching ESL since 1990, Brazilian Portuguese since 2001 and TOEIC preparation since 2006. I have loved helping my students master English as a Second Language grammar, vocabulary, and conversation. It is thrilling to see my students accomplish their goals when they are able to converse, read, and write in their target language,and when they improve their comprehension and pronunciation skills. My academic background is one hundred percent language oriented. I am a translator for Brazilian Portuguese but have worked as a teacher since I graduated because teaching is my passion and learning is my passion.

I am a very enthusiastic teacher and I have been voted the best teacher of the year virtually every year. I use a communicative approach and my goal is to keep the teacher-student talk time respectively at a 30% and 70% ratio.

I can't wait for the opportunity to help you reach your linguistic goal.

Reviews

Marcia is awesome. She is very knowledgeable, patient and able to communicate lessons in a clear and easy manner.

Posted May 29, 2020

Agostino ..

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Marcia is an amazing teacher. She really knows her stuff and at the same time, is very patient. Marcia is also a really nice person and enjoyable to work with!

Posted May 29, 2020

Konstantine P.

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Posted May 21, 2020

Holvin

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Very nice, professional, and engaging!

Posted May 18, 2020

Umashree N.

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Posted Apr 29, 2020

Adam

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She is great at guiding you along during conversation.

Posted Apr 20, 2020

Samantha G.

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Fallon

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Posted Mar 16, 2020

Aaron

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Best instructor ever!!!

Posted Mar 8, 2020

Whitney

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Always Great!

Posted Mar 6, 2020

Meghan

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Marcia is fantastic. I can’t wait for my future lessons!

Posted Feb 21, 2020

Natalie K.

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Awesome first lesson, excited for more!

Posted Feb 19, 2020

Kristin F.

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Marcia is the best teacher! I'm so thankful to have found her. If you're looking for a positive, knowledgeable, personality filled teacher... Marcia is your girl! :)

Posted Jan 23, 2020

Adam

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Posted Jan 6, 2020

Charlotte F.

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I love her, her way of teaching, and she is very patient...when you are a slow learner, patience goes a long way...

Posted Jan 3, 2020

Amr Elborai

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Marcia is amazing!

Posted Dec 18, 2019

Amr Elborai

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She is amazing.

Posted Dec 5, 2019

Chad

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Posted Dec 4, 2019

Jeanette B.

Great start to online Portuguese lessons!

Posted Nov 19, 2019

Gregory

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I LOVE Márcia. I think her most important asset (aside from her knowledge of language and teaching techniques) is that she makes me feel comfortable with my learning. I am a senior with whichever learning barriers come with that but Márcia, happily, renders those impediments inoperative.

Marcia is very encouraging, personable, positive and I really look forward to our lessons. She customizes the lessons and speed to your level. I could not have asked for a better teacher.

Posted Sep 10, 2019

Alison A.

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Whitney

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Larry L.

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Great first lesson, very nice teacher and explains things very well. Makes Portuguese very fun and interesting to learn.

Posted Aug 19, 2019

Rachael Z.

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Posted Aug 17, 2019

Gregory

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Marcia is knowledgeable, personable, relatable, positive and likable. I love having her as my teacher.

Posted Aug 16, 2019

Gregory

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Posted Aug 16, 2019

Brandon S.

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Posted Aug 13, 2019

Diana Mejia

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Very good class. Marcia, is very professional, she follow up and is willing to help me in my learning process. D. Mejia

Posted Jul 30, 2019

Nicola

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Posted Jul 24, 2019

Rachel

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Marcia was patient, kind, funny, attentive, knowledgable, and organized. Everything you could ask for in a teacher. I highly recommend her!

Posted Jun 9, 2019

Laurie M.

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Marcia is an excellent teacher, so kind and patient, and always has great lessons prepared. Thank you!

Posted Jun 4, 2019

Laurie M.

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Marcia is wonderful, encouraging, and so patient!

Posted May 28, 2019

Gary

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Great first lesson. Looking forward to the next one. Marcia was great.

Posted May 22, 2019

Charlotte F.

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Fabulous...I love her...KUDOS!!!

Posted Apr 8, 2019

Efosa

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Posted Mar 27, 2019

Jc Carey

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Rachel P.

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Posted Feb 20, 2019

Alison A.

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Great first lesson. Very excited to continue. Very active and interactive lesson.

Posted Jan 2, 2019

Samantha

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Whitney

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Sarah B.

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Marcia is a wonderful teacher! So knowledgeable, patient and kind.

Posted Sep 25, 2018

August

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Incredible professor. I felt she really wanted to focus on my needs and cared about my progress, all the while it was fun and easy-going! I am grateful and more motivated than ever because I know that I am in good hands.

Posted Sep 25, 2018

Efosa

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Posted Sep 24, 2018

Shannon

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Wonderful lesson! Obrigada Marcia!

Posted Jul 11, 2018

Mike McCollum

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Marcia is amazing.

Posted Jul 9, 2018

Nicholas

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Marcia é ótimo!

Posted Jul 9, 2018

Nicholas

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Posted Jul 9, 2018

Rodolfo T.

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Posted Jul 2, 2018

Umashree N.

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Marcia was super easy to talk to and patient. I'm excited to be learning the language from her.

Posted Jun 26, 2018

Hillary K.

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great teacher! native brazilian which is so great! :)

Posted Jun 17, 2018

Joleen L.

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Great!

Posted Jun 4, 2018

Joleen L.

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I really enjoy our conversation.

Posted Jun 2, 2018

Randy

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Marcia is a great teacher, obviously very experienced.

Posted May 29, 2018

Nick

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Marcia is the real deal! She is a great teacher, and comes overly prepared. Completely different than trying to learn Portuguese with my Brazilian friends. I needed an actual language expert teacher, and I’m glad I found Marcia. Also extremely kind and patient.

If you are looking for an AMAZING, fun, smart, intuitive, genuine, kind, experienced teacher... Marcia is the one for you! She is so much more to me than a weekly lesson... she's also my friend. :)

Posted May 24, 2018

Joleen L.

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Marcia is very personable and knowledegable, and in my first lesson, I really felt like she would cater the class to my needs, which was my main concern. I really feel I will improve greatly working with her.

Posted May 19, 2018

Sherar ..

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excellent instructor

Posted May 14, 2018

Thomas W.

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Wonderful!!

Posted May 10, 2018

Sherar ..

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Excellent instructor!

Posted May 3, 2018

Troy

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Have been studying with Marcia for a couple of months now. She is amazing and truly look forward to my lessons with her!

Posted Apr 11, 2018

joyce

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Posted Apr 9, 2018

Whitney

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Marcia is great! Very patient, knowledgeable and gives great feedback to keep you engaged and wanting to learn more! Thank you Marcia!

Posted Apr 2, 2018

Janai H.

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Marcia was really patient and helped me with my pronunciation. She was also really encouraging. I enjoyed my first class.

Posted Mar 9, 2018

Tara

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After a ~6 months of Portuguese classes in university, I took a year of lessons with Márcia. I was preparing for a post-graduate study abroad program, so was looking to maintain and improve my Portuguese relatively intensively. Working with Márcia was an absolute delight - she was always punctual, willing to work with my schedule, and adopted the textbooks I was used to. Depending on my schedule, she was happy to assign me homework or come to class prepared with activities if I didn't have time outside of class to study that week. Our lessons were mostly conversations, with Marcia actively pointing out new vocabulary words, grammar usage points, or tidbits of Brazilian culture throughout. Unlike my university classes, Marcia taught me Portuguese for professional AND casual situations. She even invested time in my learning outside of my lesson by reviewing and providing thorough feedback on my assignments before we even got to the lesson.

Marcia is a perfect teacher. She makes you feel comfortable from the beginning, takes time to explain you and can always adapt to every way of learning you may prefer. Her lessons are dynamic and really interesting! No hesitation, she is the one to recommend for any Portuguese lesson you want to take.

First class and Marcia beats any program I've ever used. I know working with her is going to be a great experience.

Posted Dec 7, 2017

Sara M.

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Posted Nov 22, 2017

Steven

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Amazing instructor. Very patient in answering all my questions while staying on point with the lesson. Definitely worth it!

Posted Oct 28, 2017

Bob S.

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Marcia is both enthusiastic and engaging. I am greatly looking forward to working with her for many months to come to improve my Portuguese.

Posted Oct 16, 2017

Bob S.

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Excellent teacher!!

Posted Oct 16, 2017

Adriana

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Marcia is wonderful! Very friendly and thoughtful. I am loving my classes.

Posted Oct 15, 2017

Sarah P.

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Marcia is so sweet and very talented in regarding of explaining her points.

Posted Oct 3, 2017

Michelle

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I just had my first lesson with Marcia and I loved it. She was very encouraging, positive, and clearly cares about her students. She also listened to my specific interest in learning portuguese so that she could create a unique lesson just for me that will allow me to reach my personal goals. I look forward to our next lesson!

Always AMAZING! I am learning so much every class. She is the best teacher ever... and now my friend as well. xo xo xo :)

Posted Jul 27, 2017

Everett

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Dinardo Rodríguez

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Márcia is a clear expert when it comes to Portuguese culture and language. I have been a student of Marcia for a few months and I honestly look forward to our classes every time. She is very funny, comfortable, and familiar. Her classes are a mixture of academics and fun! She is very flexible and a lovely person to speak with-- I highly recommend.

I thoroughly enjoyed my first lesson with Márcia! Her warm and encouraging personality sets one at ease, an important quality in a teacher. Márcia clearly has solid conversational and grammatical knowledge of Portuguese, and she, even more importantly, possesses the skills required to assess students' strengths/weaknesses and tailor lessons to her students' needs.

I had a wonderful first class. Marcia, my instructor, was very pleasant and a great teacher. I look forward to out next class and feel she will really make the process of learning a new language much easier. Thank you so much!!

Posted Jul 6, 2017

Derek

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Posted Jun 21, 2017

Ismar

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She is top of the line. Friendly, unassuming, approachable.

Posted Jun 19, 2017

Ismar Estrella

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She is a natural, she is very perceptive and adapts to student's needs automatically.

Posted May 29, 2017

Jessica Fields

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Excellent first lesson! Very excited about learning this language and looking forward to talking with Marcia again!!

Posted May 1, 2017

Jessica Fields

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Arianna

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What a fabulous teacher! I could not have been more pleased, and I hope she does not quit teaching online lessons anytime soon!

Posted Apr 28, 2017

Melissa A.

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She was excellent and I had an excellent class and I loved it

Posted Apr 20, 2017

Cloe M.

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Cloe could not be happier with Marcia's teaching style and warmth. She is fantastic and focused - teaching exactly what Cloe needs at her pace. Thanks for your influence on Cloe's life and learning!

Posted Feb 24, 2017

Kristin F.

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Wow. Marcia is an amazing teacher. Energetic, endearing, genuine & articulate to name only a few. I'm so excited to be her student.

Posted Jan 23, 2017

Kathryn L.

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Marcia, is very patient and kind. She presents the information in a way that it is to follow and understand! I really like her!!

Posted Jan 22, 2017

Todd

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Excelente!

Posted Dec 5, 2016

Dinardo Rodríguez

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Wonderful Instructor!!! :) Muito obrigado Marcia!!!

Posted Oct 29, 2016

Rosie

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Marcia is a great choice if you are serious about learning Portuguese and having fun in the process. She tailors to her student needs, creates fun activities, and gives you plenty of speaking practice. I have studied other languages in the past without actually feeling I was learning the language. Studying with Marcia allowed me to quickly progress and learn. Today, I still do practice lessons, watch videos in Brazilian Portuguese, and try to listen to the radio in Portuguese as much as possible because my lessons with Marcia keep me motivated to keep learning. She is a great instructor!

I cannot say enough about Prof. Marcia. I studied with her for two year and what
struck me as perfect was her ability to structure the class exactly to your needs and do this for each student. The classes were a perfect mix of different media and a blend of both grammar and practice. It was a big loss for the school and for me when Prof. Marcia left Los Angeles. Anyone looking to learn portuguese on any level needs to look no further.

Experience

Instructor of ESL, TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication)

Oct 2001 - Jun 2016

Language Systems International, Los Angeles, CA

At L.S.I I worked as a full-time ESL teacher (grammar, reading and conversation). I taught all levels, from beginner to advanced. I also gave test preparation classes for the TOEIC test. My students were from many different backgrounds and cultures.
I also worked as a Portuguese teacher for Pasadena Language Center from 2012 to June 2016. There I worked primarily with business people who traveled to Brazil on a regular basis. At Pasadena Language Center, I also designed courses to meet the students needs.

Education

Translator and Interpreter (English-Portuguese/ Portuguese-English)

Feb 1990 - Dec 1992

Faculdade Ibero Americana / Objetivo

Languages

Portuguese (Brazilian), English,

Fluent / Native Proficiency

Certifications

Translator and Interpreter (English-Portuguese/ Portuguese-English)

Feb 1990

Colégio Objetivo, São Paulo, Brazil

Awards

Best teacher, Teacher of the year

Affiliations

American Translators Association

Jan 1996

ATA is a professional association founded to advance the translation and interpreting professions and foster the professional development of individual translators and interpreters. Its 11,000 members in more than 90 countries include translators, interpreters, teachers, project managers, web and software developers, language company owners, hospitals, universities, and government agencies.

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